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A B-1 bomber on Feb. 26, 2012, flew the 10,000th combat mission for the aircraft type, announced officials with the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing. The historic sortie started from an undisclosed air base in Southwest Asia and supported operations in Afghanistan, they said. The milestone came less than 14 years after the venerable bomber made its combat debut in Iraq in December 1998 during Operation Desert Fox, they said. Here, the B-1 takes off on the historic mission.